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GST Awarded
$9.7 million US
Navy Contract
YARDLEY,
Pa - April 2006 Global Systems
Technologies Inc. (GST) has been awarded a $9.7
million, 5-year contract to serve as the prime
contractor to provide programming, data
analysis, and data facility management support
to the US Navy’s MEASURE (Metrology System for
Uniform Recall and Reporting) Program.
GST employees in Norfolk, Virginia and San
Diego, California will support the MEASURE
program in maintenance scheduling and worldwide
tracking of approximately 1.7 million items of
test, measuring, and diagnostic equipment
belonging to NAVAIR and NAVSEA.
According to Achintya Bhattacharjee, President
of GST: “We are very pleased with this win,
because this is the first contract under our
recently awarded very large SeaPort-e IDIQ
contract for the support of nationwide programs
under the US Navy. This will allow us to develop
& maintain a special niche area in NAVAIR &
NAVSEA Programs.”
GST, a recognized leader in Aviation Security,
has also been supporting the Homeland Security’s
Transportation Security R&D Lab at the W.J.
Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City, NJ for
over fifteen years. GST supports the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in
the certification testing of Explosive Trace
Detection (ETD) equipment and the
development-stage testing and evaluation of
next-generation passenger screening portals. GST
also manufactures threat-recognition training
aids for Air Marshals and Airport Screeners. For
the FAA, GST provides testing and evaluation of
all new systems entering the Air Traffic Control
Modernization program.
Overseas, GST India does Software development of
ERP & Healthcare products and provides
high-level IT Training. Mr. Bhattacharjee
observes that: “While we have enjoyed success in
Government contracts for the last 19 years and
work in several key programs for FAA, TSA, and
US NAVY, I now see equal or more opportunity in
IT sectors in India where our growth rate has
been exponential for the last 2 years. "
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